The Reserve Bank of Australia is considering use of a digital currency

The RBA is researching the poroposal with various partners.

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• Reserve Bank partners with Commonwealth Bank, National Australia Bank, Perpetual and ConsenSys Software on Wholesale Central Bank Digital Currency Research Project

In brief:

• exploring potential use and implications of a wholesale form of central bank digital currency
• project will explore funding, settlement and repayment of a tokenised syndicated loan on an ethereum-based DLT platform